Recording from the streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, Pandora, and Hulu is strictly against the rules we agreed to when we accepted their terms. But is it legal? That's another questions altogether. To consider that we must go back some 30 years to the...
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Changing Faces
Today you can download software that uses machine learning to perform a convincing digital video face-swap. The video is called a deepfake. It can stitch the eyes of one person onto the face of another person doing lip-sync karaoke. It isn’t perfect yet, but it could...
Music for Video Created by AI
Create unique professional music for your video. Just choose a mood and style of the music you want, Amper can create it in a few seconds. That's the claim made by Amper Music. This new royalty-free music program uses AI to produce music that fits the style of your...
Repair Corrupted Video Files
The first step in trying to repair corrupted video files is to view the technical and tag data of that file. The best way to do that is with a free, open-source program called MediaInfo. This program provides a unified display of the most relevant technical and tag...
Review of the RetroScan Universal Film Scanner
I've been using the RetroScan Universal for scanning 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm films since May of 2018. I've been very happy with the results. This machine works differently from all the others I have used or studied. It scans frame-by-frame high definition stills and can...
Photoshop For Audio
Two years ago Adobe demonstrated a program that can edit speech just like you can edit text, but it can also add new speech. The program is called VoCo. It ingests speech, breaks it down to basic elements and then creates new words and sentences from scratch. So you...
New Airline Regulations for Batteries
The airlines naturally worry about battery leakage, fire or explosion. Bad enough on land, but potentially disastrous on an airplane. Last year, the FAA said that lithium-ion batteries were sparking airplane fires once every 10 days on average. The International Air...
The VLC 3.0 Revolution
We've been recommending VLC for a while here. Whether it is for converting video files, recording a webcam, screen recording or other video tasks VLC is a much better media player than Windows Media Player and Apple Quick Time. VLC can play virtually any video format....
Hologram, Peppers Ghost and a New Live Performance for Dead Artists
Maria Callas, the legendary opera star, was according to the NY Times the greatest singer of the 20th Century. She died in 1977, but she performs in a new concert with a live orchestra. A company called Base Hologram is using an old technique called Peppers Ghost with...
The Log vs the LUT
Last week in our review of the Nikon D850 I said I'd address the topic of Log vs LUT. What is a Log as opposed to a LUT (Look Up Table)? A simple explanation is that a log is a way to record video in a specific way. Then in post you can apply the corresponding LUT...
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